Even as Pope Benedict XVI said his heart cannot be at peace while people are homeless, critics used his Africa pilgrimage to highlight the plight of thousands whom the Angolan government has violently evicted from land owned by the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI, welcomed to this sweltering capital Friday by the biggest crowds of his African pilgrimage, condemned sexual violence against women in Africa and chided those countries on the continent that have approved abortion.

A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man Monday after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Obama took office.

Thousands of supporters of Nicaragua's leftist ruling party armed with rocks tried to block an opposition march on the capital to protest alleged vote fraud, setting off clashes that injured at least five people on Tuesday.

Nicaragua's election council agreed Wednesday to a local review of the Managua mayoral election results, but opposition party members who claimed fraud in the balloting demanded that international observers be present.